I quit my day job with my friend Igor I started a new company called elastic.io, a solution that helps people connect cloud API's without programming. One of the major hurdles we faced when starting our company was how to do the financial planning for our SaaS startup. Since we thought this might be useful for other entrepreneurs, I wanted to share with you what we learned.
Financial planning for Saas resources
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Check out this incredible music video: it's possible to click on any interactive element - add stuff to your shopping cart, 'like' things on Facebook, etcetera. It looks impressively smooth, especially compared to the ugly boxes that YouTube plasters over its videos lately:
The video was made by Zentrick, a startup that developed a solution to add any kind of interactive element to online video, on any platfor... Read more

We built a crowdfunding platform for photojournalism that raises 1,29 € per unique visitor. Since the launch of Emphasis in March 2011, 70 percent of our projects got fully funded, without having spent one euro on advertising, PR or marketing. That is far above average.
Since everybody understands pictures, our reach is truly global. Almost half of our unique visitors come from outside the US and Europe. Pub... Read more

David Sacks raised 85 million $ for Yammer before selling it to Microsoft for about 1,2 billion $. Yammer is currently used by 85 percent of the Fortune 500 (as self reported by Yammer).
So let's agree that Sacks knows a thing or two about getting traction for your startup. At a recent event at Google Ventures, Sacks offered these snippets (well, chunks) of wisdom.
1. Distribution is everything
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It turns out that Whiteboard readers REALLY love Bikway (pronounced bike-way), the Copenhagen startup who wants to install prefab bike lanes in congested cities.
To summarise, for those who didn’t read the original article that we wrote on them: Bikway is a prefab bike lane that (according to Bikway) can be bolted on top of existing road infrastructure in less time and at lower cost than traditional bicycle lane... Read more